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  • that was easy to draw!

    This is the follow up of this was easy to draw?

    Submitted by cartoonist and fellow blogger Bellur in his inimitable style…

    The HOD,
    ‘Rediscovers Nature’ Block,
    Common Man’s College of Engg.
    Bangalore Branch (H.O. Igatpuri)

    Sub: Submission of Assignment

    Kindly accept my Pelican assignment.

    Sincerely Yours
    Bellur
    Roll No:260109

    …please click on the image to view it better (just click again to return*)

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    Thank you Bellur, simply superb full marks to you! 🙂

    For others: I’m with you on the laziness part but please remember ‘better late than never’ so hope you don’t take undue advantage of the fact that there’s no deadline… further entries are always welcome! 🙂

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    * thanks to the amazing NextGen plugin

  • art tutor for a day

    Very unexpectedly, I ended up teaching a couple of neighborhood kids how to paint. Here are some of the ideas.

    Assumed that there is already an initial outline picture on the paper which is to be filled in…

    • only the tip of the paintbrush should be dipped in paint, not the entire brush.
    • first paint the outline very carefully and neatly, making sure not even a single drop of paint comes outside, and then paint the interior gradually
    • use only strokes in the same direction as much as possible
    • wait for a coat to dry before applying a second coat
    • clean the brush thoroughly after use
    • its good to buy a coloring book which has empty outlines where the child can paint inside. But its can also be fun to actually ask him what he wants to draw, draw the outline for him on the spot, and then he paints it.

    [optional reading] Background trigger… series of unrelated events…

    I was recently watching What Dreams May Come had seen it earlier once long ago, but watching it again the dialogues and story was more rivetting than ever, and the main point related to this post is that there’s a LOT of painting involved in this movie…

    Was browsing through the very colorful Jana’s Journal and appreciating the lovely pictures there…

    And recently was writing to my Mukthabalaga friends on a nice activity at home – my wife gives my son a watercolor paintbox and paintbrush, and then sits with him somewhat nonobstrusively, aiding him to just experiment with colors.

    So recently a couple of neighbouring kids were playing at home with Abhinav, and they started using his paint set and I was passing by and was really aghast looking at them scrubbing the paper like they were using a toilet brush to remove a stain. I had to stop myself from shouting “NOooo Noooo nOOOO…” :mrgreen: So sat down with them, and started explaining how to paint. As I started, I started recollecting more and more how I used to really enjoy painting during my school days – and it was a really nice time 😎

  • this should be easy to draw?

    Finally I uploaded my photo from the previous Bangalore Weekend Shoot photographer’s club meet in Lalbagh…

    the pelican brief

    pelican with a fishy catch

    (Clicking on an image above takes you to a bigger version)

    I would like to invite you dear reader – can you send me a drawing of one of the above pictures…?

    A simple pencil sketch will do, unless you are feeling more enterprising and want to add color as well. You can either draw it on paper and scan it. Or you could even draw it using Windows Paint, Gimp, or Paint.net or any other image editing tool, and then email it to the common man blog. Unless you have strong inclination otherwise, it will soon be posted here with any attribution/link you provide.

    And if you like, you needn’t even get limited to the photo but just use it as a starting point and add anything else.

    This is just for fun and not any kind of competition. Don’t be in a hurry, take your time, but give it your best shot!

    (Maybe its also a chance for me to confront any realisation that this site really have no readers at all heh heh :mrgreen: …Well, I know I’ll get atleast one from a friend who promised he’d send one, and I myself will make an attempt, so that will be a minimum of two…!)

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    See also: Learn How To Draw

    Some encouragement here… Fun With A Pencil by Andrew Loomis

    Excerpt from the introduction…

    MR. WEBSTER DEFINES DRAWING
AS DELINEATION. THAT DOESN’T
TELL YOU HOW MUCH OF A REAL
"BANG" THERE IS IN IT. MAYBE
HE NEVER KNEW. MOST FOLKS
LOVE TO DRAW EVEN WHEN
THEY KNOW LITTLE ABOUT IT. IT
STARTED WITH THE CAVE MAN,
AND STILL SURVIVES ON THE
WALLS OF PUBLIC PLACES... BECAUSE
IT’S SO MUCH FUN, AND
SO EASY, IT’S A SHAME NOT TO BE
ABLE TO DO IT BETTER.
~ ANDREW LOOMIS


ALL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, TO START
THIS BOOK, IS HOW TO DRAW A CIRCLE. . . .

Don’t start out with that old gag, "I couldn’t draw a straight
line." Neither can I, freehand. If we need a straight line, we
can use a ruler. Now please try it, just for fun.
And it can be as lopsided as the family budget, and
still work out.

  • the road not taken at Horanadu




    Horanadu temple

    Originally uploaded by common man.

    The Annapoorneshwari temple at Horanadu is quite famous.

    We arrived at Horanadu yesterday night and witnessed the Mahamanglaarthi at this temple at 21:15, a beautiful event with a LOT of lighted lamps. The darshan – where you can walk past the diety (in this case, Goddess Annapoorneshwari) as with all big temples, the priest urges anyone who tarries for more than a few milliseconds to keep moving. Food and accomodation is provided at the temple. Accomodation must be quite a nice experience with big long lines of pillows, carpets and bedsheets all arranged by just two servers in a very short time, yet they were doing it unhurriedly and meticulously.

    However we stayed at a nearby lodge. This morning I was taking a walk with my sister amidst the very foggy hillside.

    We were walking along the main road in the direction of the temple, and there was a small tar road, at the curve. There are countless times I’ve lived by Robert Frost’s Road Not Taken, and this was one of those times, so we ventured in to explore this small road.

    The whole district of Chimagalur is really beautiful, lots of green foliage everywhere. Also this particular road, it had rained, so everything from the road to the flowers and the leaves and the tree trunks – all had this strikingly wonderful lustre to it. Along the way we came across a little boy and picked up a chat with him. He was a polite, soft spoken kid who along the way, spoke of a small temple, and showed us a little mud path turning off from the road upwards (I was reminded of the little girl in the movie Tomb Raider every time Lara sees some jasmine flowers). He went on his way to his school I think – as it was Monday morning. (I had taken a day off)

    We started walking up that path, and it winded around, becoming steeper along the way, and after a few minutes, we walked around a bush to reach a flat ground that had the staircase to this temple (see photo). The place and the temple was so undescribably beautiful that the photograph here does poor justice to it.

    We walked up the staircase, and couldn’t help just sitting in silence for a mesmerised by the ambience. There was just the sound of birds including peacocks playing a symphony in the background. If this isn’t heaven, I don’t know what its supposed to be like 🙂 Vijetha would’ve loved it here as well (but she couldn’t make it to this trip). We soon went into the temple, the serenity was a stark contrast to the rush in the famous bigger temple. Maybe not many people even know about this temple. (Because later on in the morning when we went back with our mom (and when I took this photo) still there was just one family who was visiting). There was no hurry here and we could just meander around. When we spoke to the priest, I felt he was a very simple down to earth man. This temple has this beautiful natural green lawn around it where one can walk around it. Later on, came to know it was a very ancient temple.

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    In case anyone wants to try this out, at the curve with an unmistakable landmark – a grilled gate having two tigers in the grills which once one passes will find are the entrance to a helipad.

  • mesmerised by art at Belur




    mesmerised by the art

    Originally uploaded by common man.

    Here’s a moment when my mom is just amazed by the fantastic scupltures of Belur, which is more than just a temple but an exhibhition of art.

    More pictures…